JPB
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- Location
- North Yorkshire
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Leyland 272 back end oil filler / dipstick
- Thread starter JPB
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diggerjones
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- Location
- South cheshire, audlem
Think theres a bolt at the right hand side at the back. Behind the external hydraulic quick coupler. Fill from top. Where you've got an elbow sticking out
- Location
- SW Scotland
Yes, fill from the bung with the elbow. But the level plug is on the left, just above and back a bit from where the PTO lever goes into the back end.
- Location
- Central Scotland
Put Universal Tractor Oil in there - no hydraulic fluids or anything fancy!
JPB
Member
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Thanks everyone. Will have a look tomorow and try get it going. It's been stood for a few years. Yeh was going to stick some universal oil in it, had a drum for years and been looking for a tractor to put it in !
- Location
- Oxon
Thats the filler there, looks like its had a return piped to it at some point. Older models had dipticks between your legs but these had a bung as said above
- Location
- Oxon
A 272 non synchro? wasnt aware there was such a thing???
- Location
- SW Scotland
They were only available for a short time. Q cabs came first and the synchro box followed a year or so later.
Captain Sensible
Member
- Location
- mid-Norfolk
All 'R' and virtually all 'S' reg Q-cab Leyland 272(s) were fitted with the 5 x 2 (10F x 2R) transmission. Synchro tractors were only made available from the 1978 Royal Show onwards. By Smithfield 1980 the 'Harvest Gold' tractors were launched, so 'blue' Synchro models weren't actually available for much longer than their 5x2 predecessors.
- Location
- Oxon
ah ok, got a 472 and a 482 synchro and i think a 262 syncho???? but thats been robbed for anything worth while.
Captain Sensible
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- Location
- mid-Norfolk
Hang onto your 472 and 482 ...... Definite appreciating assets! Not quite in 7810 territory yet but, given the last 12-18 months, who knows what the future holds. Assuming they can afford to buy nitrogen next spring
- Location
- Oxon
Hang onto your 472 and 482 ...... Definite appreciating assets! Not quite in 7810 territory yet but, given the last 12-18 months, who knows what the future holds. Assuming they can afford to buy nitrogen next spring
Probably wont be a farmer that buys them not really that great a tractor to use, more a collectors thing.
wont be going any where for a while yet- Location
- Central Scotland
I have a 1976 272 synchro. Chassis number and log book matches .No sign that the synchro gearbox has been added later.
Captain Sensible
Member
- Location
- mid-Norfolk
At that age I'd suggest it can only be a Leyland pre-production prototype (4P) tractor. According to a reliable source there were only around 12 completed / final build spec. Synchro tractors available in Feb 1978 when they were launched to Leyland dealers, though there were bound to be a good few Field Test predecessors built for test & evaluation purposes. Perhaps yours is one? Apparently the
Does it have the red 'synchro' stripes around the bonnet? What are the casting codes on the transmission casing? Do they relate to the approx registration age of the tractor?
So mostly complete then?
- Location
- Central Scotland
It does have the red synchro stripes - first registered 1st March 1976 - first owner from 76 to 81. 2nd owner had it 40 years and now i have it. Its on 16.9 x 30 tyres with strange rims - not sure they are original though. Will check the casting codes.
- Location
- Central Scotland
If you had any parts left from the 262 to help save a 272 I would be interested. Needing the rear and lower windows, check chain tubes and other bits an pieces.
- Location
- Oxon
Its a rough as hell nothing much any good on it. It came free with the 482
Theres no back end on it, clutch is out of it, sumps off. Never been touched since it arrived 25 years ago.
Zebbedee
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- Location
- Scotland in the best bit
What’s a 472 worth then got one here mechanically good apart from high synchro, tinwork is needing workHang onto your 472 and 482 ...... Definite appreciating assets! Not quite in 7810 territory yet but, given the last 12-18 months, who knows what the future holds. Assuming they can afford to buy nitrogen next spring
Captain Sensible
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- Location
- mid-Norfolk
Without doubt that's a very unique tractor. However, I'm afraid I'd be wondering whether it was unique when it left Bathgate or whether it 'became unique' sometime after that. A couple of questions:-
- Is the Serial No. prefix 272QM or 272QMS ?
- Are the rear cab mounts the cylindrical type with a horizontal securing bolt or the 'doughnut' type with a vertical securing bolt?
- If it was 1st registered in March '76, I'm assuming it's on a 'P' plate?
Here's why I'm a bit sceptical. Bathgate didn't launch their Q-cab (10 speed QM-cabbed) tractors to the UK press until May 1976. Tractor Q cab legislation didn't actually come into force until 1st June 1976 ..... it had been delayed for 12 months because many tractor manufacturers hadn't got their (new) model ranges ready in time. Now Leyland definitely built some QM cabs before May '76. Some were sent to the NIAE at Silsoe in 1974 & 75 for statutory ROPS and noise testing. But these weren't Synchro models ..... they were all 5 x 2 tractors.
It's always possible that you've got a unique pre-build machine, but road-registered with a commercial(?) user 2 years before the Synchro tractors were launched to UK dealers?? I regrettably think that's unlikely. I'd be interested to hear JVP's opinion